Animal Person

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I don't want to comment right now except to say that there are no graphic images of suffering similar to those in, say, Earthlings. Tags: Activism Ethics Film. Karol Orzechowskiof Animal Voices (who interviewed yours truly back in July!) created the following film for your viewing, um. for your viewing. But that's me.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Ethical vegetarianism is the thesis that killing and eating animals is morally wrong whenever equally nutritious plant-based alternatives are available. The case for ethical vegetarianism starts with several uncontroversial premises. Most people hold that it is wrong to cause animals unnecessary suffering.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 31, 2008

My view, then, is not that which it has often been taken to be in discussion and which Singer, Regan, Clark, and others blast in their work; I am not suggesting that, because they lack language, animals can be factory farmed without suffering. Animals can suffer, which they could not unless they were conscious; so they are conscious.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Concerns surround the ethics of the process, the welfare of the animals and a lack of research on food safety. Clones themselves can suffer a range of painful conditions, including malformed organs and gigantism. From the Daily Mail. Many die in the womb or soon after birth.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The raid followed an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. An Arlington, Texas, municipal judge ruled that the animals suffered from neglect and cruel conditions, and an appeal by the company's owners to a higher court was denied last weekend. (See, husband, this is why I like PETA!)

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Do they suffer any more or less in death? If you eat meat you cannot logically find it morally or ethically repugnant to eat a particular meat (I’m setting cannibalism aside here.). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. Are they any more or less sentient? I think not. product that comes from an animal ).

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 24, 2008

Neither Aquinas nor Kant nor Newman denied, however, that animals could suffer: Descartes and Malebranche thought differently. To suppose that animals could feel would be to suggest that there could be pain and suffering where there has been no sin. For animals did not eat of the Forbidden Tree.

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

If the directive is approved, the number of animals used for experiments will be limited, and the animals’ welfare will be improved in accordance with ethical principles of the EU concerning animals. My personal philosophy is that millions of animals shouldn't suffer on anyone's behalf, especially when they do so against their will.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

On February 8, a federal judge said ‘no,’ stopping a historic case filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against SeaWorld for violating the 13th Amendment on slavery. Full story posted on Global Animal and from the Huffington Post. Do whales deserve constitutional protection against slavery? PETA filed the lawsuit in the U.S.

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Animal Person

APRIL 8, 2009

So his suffering was basically prolonged because he looked good on that one day, and because testing is done only if there are symptoms. My only hope is that other kitties at Project Treadstone aren't suffering someplace hidden. Of course, when kitties are suffering they usually hide so that's profoundly unrealistic.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. If not knowing this information any longer and thus suspecting you might be suffering from dementia, there are always some other animals around to facilitate assisted suicide. Or speluncaphobia? The Stork-billed Kingfisher is much bigger and easier to see.

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Tags: Books Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

MAY 6, 2009

The book, which I have not read, that saved Derrick Jensen 's life is called The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith, who was a vegan for 20 years, suffered serious medical problems, and started feeling better when she recommenced eating animals. Tags: Activism Books Ethics.

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Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

Travers said, “We created this competition to boost fashion careers and honor independent designers who have compassion for animals and for the ethical and green fashion movement. Our hope is that these talented participants will help pave the way for a more ethical fashion industry in the future.”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. He suffered from the lack of experience as a traveler and someone who has hired guides himself. In my eyes, what counts is how someone plays the game. I remember one guide in the south of Africa.

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Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154).

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Most of it in fact focuses on feeling, on not hurting people physically or mentally, or helping them be happy or escape from suffering. Rollin , "Reasonable Partiality and Animal Ethics," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8 [April 2005]: 105-21, at 117)

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Critter News

MARCH 23, 2009

In addition, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a complaint with the USDA.The dog’s owners said the dog was in the truck too long; a necropsy was inconclusive, but one pathologist said heat and dehydration were likely contributing factors. Weather conditions were also similar.

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Animal Person

MAY 13, 2009

I sometimes experience despair thinking about all of the suffering. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics. We vegans have a lot of feelings associated with why we do what we do and I, for one, find it necessary to do a lot of work around my emotions. I sometimes get very angry that so few people seem to care.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. But they too lead one to accept "ethical meat" as an option because their focus is on suffering.

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Animal Person

MARCH 20, 2010

Here 's a factsheet about petting zoos, which at least in Florida have been a public health threat , to say nothing of the exploitation and suffering of the animals.) Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Gray Matters. I'm fairly confident that I don't know anyone who won't say that they don't approve of animal cruelty.

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Animal Person

APRIL 26, 2009

Vamsee Juluri, Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, takes me back to graduate school when he writes of the importance of the stories we tell ourselves in " Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering." Isn't the mere existence of violence and suffering sufficient? What do you think?

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 31, 2010

By carrying out a slaughter system that greatly reduces the suffering of chickens, Bell & Evans and Mary’s Chickens show that animal welfare and good business go hand in hand. While ever more consumers are going vegetarian or vegan, almost every consumer is demanding that companies take steps to reduce animal suffering.

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Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

There has to be something I can do to reduce all of the suffering of the animals we use as food, I thought. Luckily, I think I've found a way to assuage my conscience about all of the suffering, environmental devastation and negative health impacts of eating animal products all day. I call it VBM: Vegan Between Meals.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. As a consequence, “people should treat all creatures decently, and protect them from cruelty, avoidable suffering, and unnecessary killing.”

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

My point is that being surrounded by the sights and smells of death and suffering isn't what I'd call "friendly" to me as a vegan. Tags: Activism Ethics Language. This is what happens when you ask someone with a background in linguistics to comment on a project. Headaches ensue.

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Animal Person

MAY 9, 2009

The e-mail continues: " ARFF contends that lobsters suffer tremendously when they are relegated to tiny tanks and subjected to loud noises, prodding and pulling by a mechanical claw, and prolonged starvation. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. What do you think of this campaign?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 28, 2010

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Smart , "Ethics and Science," Philosophy 56 [October 1981]: 449-65, at 453 [italics in original])

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Animal Person

JANUARY 23, 2010

If you're going to claim that it was good for Native Americans so it's good for us, please know that they had an ecological ethic that we simply don't share. Ingesting suffering can't possibly be good for anyone's karma. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Film. Not sure if the animal sees it that way.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

"There is no longer dispute among serious scientists that humans aren’t the only animals who have the capacity to suffer physically and mentally. Elephants, great apes, orcas, dogs, cats, and many other animals can experience depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and compulsive disorders.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

If a person cares about what "livestock" experience on their way to becoming "meat," there is one easy, inexpensive action that person can take to make certain s/he is not a party to the various kinds and levels of suffering and injustice the animals experience. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language.

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Animal Person

MAY 26, 2010

I think this is why I understand the thinking of people who don't want us to use animals but who promote changing the way we use them to decrease their numbers or their suffering. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. Tags: Activism Books Current Affairs Ethics Language 100 Heartbeats animal rights Jeff Corwin veganism. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

From the perspective of the land ethic, the immoral aspect of the factory farm has to do far less with the suffering and killing of nonhuman animals than with the monstrous transformation of living things from an organic to a mechanical mode of being.

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Animal Person

JULY 24, 2009

You are preventing untold exploitation and suffering by tackling them. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink. Again, a book must have a significant amount of original content to be salable. If enough people care, I can write about self-publishing, which used to be a dirty word but isn't so much anymore. Let me know.

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Animal Person

MARCH 11, 2010

To kill Violet Rays so I may eat her (or for any other reason other than to relieve her suffering) would be a betrayal, not to mention unnecessary. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink Language animal rights Huffington Post language sentience spirituality veganism William Horden. This is indeed a matter of conscience.

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Animal Person

JUNE 22, 2009

It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. Tags: Ethics Food and Drink Language. Their claim is that what has become the customary way to take sentient nonhumans from babyhood to untimely death is not humane. It's cruel. There's no "compassion" in the process. No argument here.

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